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Possible improper namespace handling in the schema?

           Summary: Possible improper namespace handling in the schema?
           Product: XalanC
           Version: 1.3.x
          Platform: All
               URL: see below.
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Minor
          Priority: Other
         Component: XalanC
        AssignedTo: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: merlin@radiosoft.com


I'm not sure if this is a bug, or just my misunderstanding of how xsl and the 
schema work together.  Its worth noting that the microsoft .xsl transformer 
excecutes the transformation without complaint.  Also, xerces C++ 1.7 parses 
the file with namespace/schema checking on with no problems.

I missed this problem for a long time because I had (improperly) not qualified 
the schema location so the .xsl transformer was ignoring it.

We have built some .xml files with associated schema.  Following Microsoft's 
example, we have extended the schema with our own namespace for internal 
reasons.  According to my understanding, you can embed your own namespaces 
in .xsd documents and the schema processor should ignore them.  Microsoft does 
this in its schema documents, for example.

You can see an example of the xml file here:
http://www.radiosoft.com/XMLSchema/directional_pattern.xml
The schema here: (already referenced in the xml file)
http://www.radiosoft.com/XMLSchema/directional_pattern.xsd
and an example transform here
http://www.radiosoft.com/XMLSchema/dirpat_to_pt2.xsl

The file properly transforms, but xalan reports errors whenever it encounters a 
namespace it does not understand, in this case rs:.

I can work around the problem by disabling the error output in xalan.exe.  (I'm 
running it for an internal process on apache web server).

I am running Xalan linked with ms visual C 6.0.   Since I don't have the 
dinkumware C++ library fixes, I used the provided binary dlls.  

Hope this helps! If I'm doing something wrong, or you need help or more 
information, email me.  I'd be happy to help, as I have great admiration for 
your project.

Merlin